S16 • E1 Jan 18, 2020
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Dr. Misty Richards talks about the late Dr. Stephanie Van Dyke, the co-founder of the Engeye Health Clinic in Ddegeya Village, Uganda. In 2000, as a volunteer in Katooke Village in rural Uganda, Stephanie witnessed the urgent need for basic medical care, which inspired her to pursue a career in medicine with the ultimate goal of building and running self-sustaining clinics in Uganda. While still a medical student at AMC, Stephanie contributed an inheritance of $35,000 from her grandmother and teamed with John Kalule, a Ugandan of Ddegeya Village, to establish the Engeye Health Clinic in 2006. In 2007, Stephanie received a Points of Light award: Stephanie Van Dyke - Points of Light Today the Engeye Health Clinic continues to serve more than 13,000 patients a year.
